Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700–1825

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Part I: Women and the Arts......Page 20
1 Signs from Empresses and Actresses: Women and Theatre in the Eighteenth Century......Page 22
2 Female Serfs in the Performing World......Page 37
3 Women and Literature, Women in Literature: Female Authors of Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century......Page 52
4 Women’s Travel and Travel Writing in Russia, 1700–1825......Page 76
5 The First Russian Women’s Journals and the Construction of the Reader......Page 96
Part II: Women and Society......Page 118
6 ‘Without Going to a Regular Court…’: The Phenomenon of the ‘Divorce Letter’ in Petrine Russia......Page 120
7 The Function of Fashion: Women and Clothing at the Russian Court (1700–1762)......Page 138
8 Merchant Women in Business in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries......Page 157
Part III: Femininity and Religious Life......Page 182
9 Sacralising Female Rule, 1725–1761......Page 184
10 Female Orthodox Monasticism in Eighteenth–Century Imperial Russia: The Experience of Nizhnii Novgorod......Page 204
11 Women with a Mission: British Female Evangelicals in the Russian Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century......Page 232
Select Bibliography (2001–2006): Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700–1825......Page 254
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